THE BEST (AND WORST) ALBUMS OF 2025
Hello and welcome to my year-end Album Extravaganza! Glad you could make it; I know it wasn't easy. Sit down here for a second and take the edge off. So it's been a weird year getting to this list. Couple of last-minute changes to the Top Ten, couple of albums I thought were shoe-ins not living up to further scrutiny. I haven't put the Songs list out yet (which I usually do first), because there were so many album cuts, I figured I should get this one done so I could be thorough (turns out that was the right call; I was adding noms up until the end). But the real strange thing was my approach to new music this year. You'll have noticed if you check this blog regularly, I only posted one review all year (two if you count the #MWE roundup in March ). The rest were just Hit Mixes. Well, confluence of factors there: First off, there were so many decent to great songs coming out that I just did a ton of Hit Mixes, but second, I needed a break...
